Posted on 01/08/2018 1:56:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s age has become an increasingly unavoidable part of her biography.
“At age 84, Dianne Feinstein is the oldest of the 100 United States senators,” Los Angeles Times columnist Harold Meyerson began a July op-ed that argued she shouldn’t run for re-election. A December Washington Post article also highlighted that Feinstein is the oldest member of “the oldest Senate ever.” Saturday Night Live even featured the veteran Democratic lawmaker – or rather, an impersonation of her – in a November skit mocking Democrats’ bid to repackage their aging leaders as fresh new faces.
Now, as she gears up for a race that would keep her in office until the age of 91, Feinstein’s biggest challenge may be to prove to voters that she hasn’t lost a step – or lost touch with Californians’ values.
Feinstein’s main challenger, state Senate President Kevin de León, and his allies are trying their best to sow doubts about the latter, while insisting they are not going after the senator’s age. It requires walking a tricky rhetorical tightrope.
Polling, however, shows California voters have some doubts. In a September 2017 poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, less than half of likely voters said Feinstein should run again. A poll from the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies last spring found that highlighting the senator’s age caused a drop in support for her re-election.
Still, she maintains a comfortable, if not commanding, lead over the 51-year-old de León in recent head-to-head matchups.
The Los Angeles Democrat has made the generational difference between himself and Feinstein a central plank of his long-shot challenge. Because of the state’s top-two primary system, where the top two finishers advance to the general election, de León is poised to be Feinstein’s opponent next November.
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Not too old, just too liberal!
too old to run for reelection...yes.
too crooked and compromised not to.... also, yes.
she needs the protective cloak of the office to ward off investigations, prosecutions, imprisonment...like so many other Californication D political hacks (think: Pelousy)...
in my humble opinion
she will run for reelection or else pick up her filthy lucre and run out of the country
She hasn’t ran since 1958 when a fiesty Harry Reid chased her around a desk one time.
She will hobble for re-election and win unfortunately.
She will run and then the new governor will name the replacement.
Come on.....the same game is being played in Utah with Mittens.
In California Dianne is a moderate. Anyone who replaces her is likely to be a totally zoned out leftist whacko nutjob.
When the sac bee is against her...she is in trouble. She and her ilk wanted all those illegals in country..funny she might get replaced by one.
TERM LIMITS please!!!
No, she’s at the peak of her ability, looks and charm!
...Anyone who replaces her is likely to be a totally zoned out leftist whacko nutjob...
Somebody can out “moonbeam” Governor, Jerry Brown.
Yet another poster child for term limits.
In CA, that's going to happen to all of them regardless. It's what happens when you promote a certain group of people to overrun an existing population.
Just ask native Americans!
old but mostly stupid
Old is just one of the things which Diane Feinstein is too.
DITTOES to THAT !!
Too incompetent.
Too old
Too stupid
Too corrupt
Too communist
Take your pick.
Guatemalan, apparently.
According to Wikipedia, Kevin de León was born Kevin Alexander Leon "in Los Angeles to Andres Leon and Carmen Osorio, both of whom were born in Guatemala; Andres was of Chinese descent." They don't say if Leon was originally a Spanish or a Chinese name.
Also, Leon or de León says he was raised on both sides of the US Mexico border. His parents weren't married to each other when he was born, and his mother's husband at one point was Mexican, so maybe in some way he is Mexican after all.
It sounds like Kevin doesn't know or remember or want to talk much about his background. Or maybe he talks about it too much. Anyway, he may be as old as DiFi by the time this is all straightened out.
Not too old, too stupid.
Some people at 84 are still very sharp. I play cards with a bunch of them every Tuesday. Some of them are in their 90s. Sharp as tacks. (For those who know what a “tack” is.)
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